2. Provides technical expertise and imaging technologies for studying the temporal dynamics of neural development and connectivity in normal and genetic models of neurological disorders in vivo and in whole mount preparations. Technologies supported include:

In utero multiphoton imaging methods to visualize the spatiotemporal dynamics of neuronal generation, migration and connectivity in intact, living embryonic brains

Multiphoton techniques to visualize structure, activity and connectivity in neural circuits in vivo.

3. Serves as a resource for advanced microscopy training to neuroscience graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in NINDS-funded and other UNC Neuroscience labs. The Core director:

Schedules and provides routine hands on training sessions on the use of CMIF microscopes

Consults and collaborates on projects that require advanced imaging techniques

Organizes and runs a graduate course (NBIO 890-001) on the principles and application of advanced microscopy for neuroscience.